San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

April 10, 1909 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 1 Bookings At the Sullivan & Considine, San Francisco Office, through Archie Levy, their sole booking agent, for week of April ». NATIONAL, San Francisco — Mueller & Mueller, Ann Crewe & Co.. Wartenbur Bros., Little Hip, Atlantic City Four, Rose Stevens, Glorine. BELL, Oakland — Joe Watson, Hetty Urma, Marco Twins. Alice Davenport & Co., Lightning Hopper, Elmer Tenley. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Don Leno's Youngsters, Errac, Les Georgettys, Sarah Cogswell. NOVELTY, Stockton — Mareena, Neverro & Mareena, Flora Browning & Kellar, Ellsworth & Lindon, Zamlock & Co. NOVELTY, Yallejo — Coin's Dogs, Marie Reitz, Pierson & Joell. LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles — Margaret Severance, Callan & Smith, The Tree Fellers, Fougere & Emerson, John W. HefFern Co., John Le Claire. QUEEN, San Diego — Cummings & Merley, The Fowlers, R. Thomas, Tom Brantford, Onetta. WALKER, Los Angeles — Magel & Adams, Mirian Marr. At the Pantages-Western States Vaudeville Association, San Francisco Office, Pantages Theatre (formerly Empire Theatre), through O. S. Burns, their sole San Francisco booking agent, for week of April 9, 1909: PANTAGES-EMPIRE, San Francisco— Prince Albert, Cuthbertson's trained horse ; Seymour and Dupre ; Lucy Lucier Trio ; Housley and Russell ; The Great Johnson ; Kiltie Duo ; Marty, the Juggler. PANTAGES, Sacramento — Maziroff's Troupe of Russians ; Garden City Trio ; Rawson and June ; Haynes and Redmond company ; Fern and Mack ; Warner and Lakewood. WIGWAM, San Francisco— John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain ; Gilbert and Katen ; Harry Walton. THEATRE JOSE, San JoseAdelaide Herrmann ; Joe Goodwin ; Two Johnsons ; Four Haydens : Phil La Toska ; Fay Carranza. FORREST, Stockton— Melbourne MacDowell and Virginia Drew Trescott ; Chas. Morrell ; Two Scotch Macks ; Fortune Brothers; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Miller. EMPIRE, Los AngelesHodges and Launchmere ; Jere Croft. GRAND, San Diego — Sommers and Storke; Billy Brown. THALIA MUSIC HALL— Reed and Arbuckle; Remsev and Neal ; Menlo. OPERA HOUSE, Watsonville— The Stoddards. COLORADO— Alsace and Lorraine ; Clarence Oliver ; Earl and Bartlett : Kid Gabriel and company. GEM, Chico — Christopher and company ; Starm. STAR, Grass Valley — Pea'rlita. BUTLER, Tonopah— Hall and Lorraine ; Leonard Kane ; George Jones. LYRIC, Goldfield— Trixjeda & Robinson ; Jack Atkins. UNIQUE, San Bernardino — Manning and Ford; Joe Valle; De Shields. OPERA HOUSE. Mojave— Wayne, the Wizard. CENTRAL, San Francisco — Nixon and Lee ; Menlo ; Lola Morante. WALKER, Los Angeles — Clara Dagneaux and Boys. FISCHER'S, Los Angeles— J. Bernard Dyllyn; Annie Baumann. Vaudeville Notes The sketch Alice Davenport is appearing in at present, Now, was written in a Kttle less than three hours and produced in two weeks after its completion. The idea was founded upon the experience of a very dear friend of hers. Miss Davenport says she is producing it as a warning to her sex. So beware, you horrid men, whom you take to see it as thy conscience may reproacheth thee. Glorine, the fine and spectacular dancer has arrived from the East and opens at the National as a special feature April 11. John W. Considine is en route to this city. There will be big doings in vaudeville circles when he arrives. Will II. Cross & Co., now playing the South, will be in this territory in the near future. Al. Jolson. the big feature of Dockstader's minstrels last season, is in town. He has resigned with Dockstader for next season. There is a probability that Al. will be signed for a season at the American Theatre when the minstrel season opens there. A letter from Carroll Johnson to Archie Levy advises that he will soon arrive in Frisco. Carl Ricter, for the past six years manager of the Orpheum at Omaha, has been transferred to the Seattle Orpheum in a similar capacity. Sullivan & Considine will soon add three houses to their California circuit. Alice Davenport, at present appearing in her sketch Now, at the National, is busily engaged in perfecting the details for next season's tour, which is to be called Passions. The production will be an innovation in the vaudeville field, requiring seven principals and fifteen supernumeraries, and special scenery will be carried for the staging of the piece. The plot is of an intense and highly dramatic nature, requiring a cast of experienced dramatic people for its interpretation. The story hinges around a murder for which an innocent man is accused. His wife, in order to establish his innocence, goes to the gambling house disguised as a favorite French danseuse of the day, and succeeds in arousing the jealously of the mistress of the place, and eventually wrings a confession from her as being the real criminal. The denouement is startling in the extreme and calls for dramatic ability of a marked degree. Miss Davenport has received several flattering offers for the booking of the act and at the conclusion of her present tour will immediately begin preparations for its production. Mueller & Mueller, billed as the Gibson Boys, will make their appearance at the National next week with a line of high class singing specialties.' Their rendering of The Rosary being especially recommended. They were formerly with Houdini and come high recommended. An amusing conversation was overheard in front of the National Theatre a few evenings ago, viz: "I see Little Hip is going to be at the National next week." He's there already." "No, he isn't." "I say he is, I saw the show and ought to know." "So have I, and I didn't see any elephant on the bill." "Elephant? What are you talking about? He isn't an elephant, that's only a burlesque on his size because he's so small and an elephant is so large." He had seen the Marco Twins. A treat is promised the patrons of the National next week by the Atlantic City Four in a number of singing and musical selections. Their act i^ said to be one of the best of its kind and has found enthusiastic favor wherever presented. David Porter & Co. in The Law of the Desert, now appearing in vaudeville, are making a decided hit wherever they appear. The work of Marion Francis Bisbee stamps her as a young woman of rare personal attraction and still rarer ability. Her impersonation of the Mexican coquette, Ouerida, is artistic and in a class with that of Jane Grey in the production of The Rose of the Rancho at the Belasco. The piece is a striking little affair, original and live, and both David Porter and Edwin Eggleston fully meet the requirements of the intense parts they portray. The playlet is of the tense order, and keeps every fiber aquiver with its keenness of lines and action. Surely there are many who have lived through just such incidents, whether they be where the author laid the scene ( near Tucson, Ariz., close to the Mexican border), or in some other part of the globe, where men and women will always be men and women. — Los Angeles Herald. When You and I Were Young, Maggie, made popular by Dick Jose, as rendered by Frank Willard at the Empire's amateur night last week made a decided hit. Mr. Willard has a rich baritone which he knows well how to handle. Mr. Emerson, of Fougere & Emerson at the Wigwam this week, presented his partner (his wife) with a diamond ring last week. It has real glossy and scintillating fire, and he paid real money for it. Cash, too. James Pilling, who has the Columbia Theatre in Oakland running as a picture house, it is reported, will establish an Airdomc in Sacramento this summer. One is outlined for Stockton, one for Fresno, one for San Jose and one for Reno, all by different promoters. Mark Twain may put up one in Santa Cruz, to be occupied by Jim Post and company. Manager Le Hrcque, of the Australian Tree Fellers, will, after present tour, accept a position as assistant manager and director of the International Industrial Exhibition Co., of New York, for summer season. He will also be interested in the Plantation and Minstrel show to be located at Palisade Park, on the Hudson. Harry Orndoff, stage manager at the Orpheum, is on a sea jaunt, making the round trip to Europe for the rest cure. Mazie Oliver is playing vaudeville dates. She is at Pantages, Seattle, this week. Mr. Zemansky said that his theatre will be built on much the same plan as the Pantages and will hold 1,100 people, 700 on the lower floor and 400 on the upper. The house will be ready for opening on September 1st, if the plans of the proprietor materialize. Tenants now occupying the site of the proposed theatre have been given notice to move June 1st. Al Hpssie, playing at the Coliseum last week at Phoenix, Ariz., was held over for the second week. The Coliseum is playing to packed houses every night. Phoenix is an extra good show town, writes Mr. Hcssie. San Bernardino, Cal., March 27. — Quieting down after a night's rampage, during which he tore up trees, smashed through fences and overturned everything movable he found in his path, Nero, one of the big elephants with Norris & Rowe's circus, meekly allowed himself to be recaptured here early today. Nero broke loose about 1 1 o'clock last night, when he was being loaded onto the circus train here. Trumpeting with rage the huge animal lumbered through the streets of the town, leaving a trail of terror in his wake. Circus crowds filled the streets and the majority of the population was in a panic within two minutes after Nero started to run away. After wrecking considerable property the big elephant began to calm down and it was believed that he could be recaptured without difficult}'. Apparently realizing the plight of his keepers, Nero tantalized them by refusing to allow himself to be chained. It was not until early today that he was apparently sleepy and willing to be fed, that the big runaway hunted up the circus camp and allowed his feet to be shackled. The Borsini Troupe at the Wigwam this week will close their tour on the S. & C. circuit in Los Angeles week of April 5th, and join the Hackenbach and Wallace shows opening in Peru, Ind., April 24th. They will book under William Morris in vaudeville again the latter part of November under the management of Tom Brantford. Ensign Barrett Leslie Anderson, of the battleship Missouri, and Elsie Fay, the vaudeville actress, were not married in New York last Wednesday. At the apartment of Miss Fay it was said that the wedding had been postponed one week and that the ceremony would be performed in Boston. E. A. Fischer of Los Angeles has sold his theatre to G. M. Schmidt and G. B. Warren. Claudia Colon nk has joined S. Miller Kent to play leads in a sketch over the Orpheum Circuit. The Globe Theatre will rc-open with 5c and 10c moving pictures and vaudeville, Saturday, April 17th, under management of Zeke Abrams. Edwin August arrived from the East Wednesday in the support of Otis Skinner, playing Captain Potcl, in The Honor of the Family, which will be seen at the Van Ness next week. Earlier in the season Mr. August was the juvenile of the Auditorium stock company at Los Angeles. After leaving Los Angeles Mr. August went East and created the juvenile in John Luther Long's new play, Kasso, which Mrs. Carter produced at the Liberty Theatre in New York City. M. M. RILEY G. A. 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